Arg! What happened here...?

[Tractorbeam]

Dead-man's switch disabled and ranaway on its own, hitting a house or rock wall?

 

[Treemonkey1000]

The color shows metal I think in the scrapes. Branches would have to be pretty tough to do that. I would think hitting a concrete pillar or bridge retaining wall. And to tear out that weld took some doing.. I'm not a welder but it sure looks like the breakage followed the bead in the weld instead of tearing out the other part of the beam.. As far as hat is concerned the only good hat is a Kubota hat.

 

[coobie]

They caught the corner a brick or cement building.coobie

 

[frank_f15]

no background for you guys yet, look at this and tell me your opinion. What happened here...?

First picture is a zero turn and bagger, the second is where the bagger mounts to the frame. Lots of clues on this one, look closely.

looks to me like the bottom part of the break is very straight and i see no weld there and the top jaged part look like mabely the weld did not pentrate, but i am no expert on welding

 

[groundcover]

New kid on the mower, on edge of wall and zigged when he should have zagged, drove over the wall and layed it on the ROPS/bagger.

 

[shasta]

Rolled through a fence?

 

[nate_m]

My Guess:

Those aren't scratches on the ROPS, it's paint... on the seat too.

Landscape trailer got in a fender bender with a paint truck and more than just their fenders traded paint. The broken welds are from the impact

 

[tommu56]

how about fell of trailer while driving and got drug

tommu

 

[bramel]

The operator is constantly zero turning into solid objects on the side without the discharge chute......he remains aware of the extra space required to navigate around objects on the side with the discharge chute but forgets about the extra space required to turn because of the catcher attachment, the added length and forgetting about the extra space required is causing him to beat the heck out of this side.

How close am I???

 

[plowking]

The ROPS is tweaked and besides handle being bent there is a lot of scratches down the side. I saw scratches on a vehicle like that down the side from running into a chainlink fence,posts. plowking

 

[chh]

Well its a wild guess, but I'm saying the scratches are from branches fences ect. The weld broke from the bagger being packed full(not emptied when it should be)and bouncing over rough ground and being hauled with the bagger full. The grass could be a considerable amount of weight if the bagger was overloaded and the stress of it bouncing on a trailer with it full would be considerable.

 

[actionaj]

He wass ridding a wheelie and it got away from him.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

No one has really hit our conclusion yet.

I'll up the ante and send a hat to whoever gets it.

My question is, do you actually KNOW how it was damaged, or is this one of those "I woke up and went out to the garage and it was broke" sort of "nobody did it" things and you're left to speculating how it really did happen?


Another thought that went through my crazy brain was possibly going under a low hanging doorway while it was on a high trailer. By the looks of the damage and lack of evidence of human carnage, I'm guessing no one was on board at the time.

Has that "drove trough a garage door" look too.

 

[Bob_Young]

The angle on that bent dump handle about matches the angle the ROPS would attain if it were folded back to the bagger. Was the ROPS unsecured and then hit something (top of garage door maybe or limb) that caused the it to pivot back against the bagger?

I notice lots of marks on the left side of the ROPS, but there are matching marks toward the top on the right side. If hit near the top, the leverage the ROPS could exert against the bagger might be enough to cause damage shown.
Bob

 

[em14]

I agree with fell off trailer!
Leo

 

[334 lawn co.]

i think that it either fell off a trailer, rolled backwards or sideways down a hill, or it was on a trailer and when pulling it thru a garage or a drive thru or something it must have caught and the driver didnt notice so he kept drving resulting in broken welds. or just a bad weld and assembly-just kidding.

 

[aczlan]

First off, I think that the grey marks on the ROPS, seat and bagger are paint, not scrapes. if you look, the grey marks are on everything, not just on the rops.

how did it happen? perhaps the operator was mowing around a painters scaffold/ladder and caught the dump handle on it and bent it, and in the process a can of paint fell and splattered next to the mower...

if not, perhaps the operator brushed up against/went through a dropcloth? that would account for the bent handle and the splatters...

on the weld: no idea, perhaps it was a bad weld, the plastic on the bagger should have given way before the weld.

Just my $.02
Aaron Z

 

[LarryRB]

mowing under a tree at full speed when purported tree limb decided to drop down and catch ROPS bar. JUSt like the trees that jump out in front of drunk drivers on the way home.

 

[silverdollar6]

I think that it came from the factory that way, so the owner wouldn`t feel bad if he dinged it.

 

[Tig]

I think it got caught on a fence. Probably while on a trailer.
Sort of like this accident.